Okay--way back in Intro vidcaps Slowhatch gave us this LINK to the Rural solidarity Burkina-Faso Morbihan.

If you switch to English and the follow the trail to the organization, you find that this group has poultry farming.

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Poultry farming has been in place in the missions since December 2002 and April 2003 with the managers of the Producers' Union, Mr. Yaro, and DPRA (provincial direction for animal resources):

Organization of a veterinary pharmacy. Training on farming (buildings, alimentation, etc.) and health (disinfection, vaccinations, etc.). These aspects are interesting for most of the families involved in poultry farming (chickens, ducks, guinea-fowl). The discussion is done in exchange groups where everyone shares failures, successes, and improves the organization to distribute vaccinations.

So I am wondering if they could actually go here either this episode or next?

It is located in the Morbihan province in the SE which would be not too distant from Dourtenga and so might have similar mud huts.

Organization in MorbihanBorn from the inspiration of several people of the rural region around Questembert and La Gacilly, Solidarité Rurale Burkina-Faso Morbihan has become an association at the department level.

Anyway--maybe something to look at?

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PLEASE LORD, GIVE ME MILK!The severe pain of a hernia attacks one Racer at the worst time as one of the older men on the Race falls under the spell of two young, feisty, hip-shaking female Racers. Struggling at a Roadblock, one panicking Racer drops to her knees in tears while her Teammate helplessly looks on.

Yeah Michael, isn't it obvious? lol. They are also in the dark with Lorena? in that one shot.

RACERS STRUGGLE TO KEEP THEIR COOL WHEN FACED WITH SEVERAL FEISTY CAMELS, ON "THE AMAZING RACE 12," SUNDAY, NOV. 18

"Please, Lord, Give Me Milk!" — Teams face a challenging Roadblock that requires them to milk several stubborn camels in order to receive their next clue on THE AMAZING RACE 12, Sunday, Nov. 18 (8:00-9:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network.

I want to offer up a view of what might be happening in the early stages of Burkina Faso. I think that teams arrive at the Ouagadougou airport and then go to get a clue at the NaBa Koom statue at the railway station. I believe the clue directs them to vans or possibly self-drive cars to take them southeast to Dourtenga or maybe even further. All the screencaps we have been getting are for highly rural enviroments, so the probability is that teams are going away from Ouagadougou after the briefest of time there. With the time of arrival being 740pm at the airport, it will be after dark before teams arrive wherever they are going. All the major activities will take place on July 14 (coincidentally Bastille Day is France and maybe celebrated in some way in Burkina Faso).

Concern has been expressed by Peach to me by PM about the rainy season in Burkina Faso and whether road trips from Ouagadougou to somewhere in the southeast and on to Niamey Niger would be feasible. I have found data on the rainy season(June to September, which is certainly when the Amazing Race is there) for the south of Burkina Faso. Total annual rainfall concentrated in those 4 months is 40 inches (about what we get in the new York metropolitan area in a year. The average per day is 0.33 inches. As long as they don't get 5 inches all at once, it may not be a problem. If it were, then an option is for World Race Productions to have teams return back to Ouagadougou and take charter flights the 300 miles from there to Niamey.

Thanks apskip, i was wondering if that scene in the dark was perhaps not the pitstop, rather the teams arriving or waiting for something doing the happy dance--Lorena has long sleeves on then changes to short sleeves at the RB and later Jason has put a coat on and then Lorena's bandanna has disappeared " BABBYYYYYYYYYYYYYY......." . A promo would be sweet and so we wait

Now stop about mushpants you guys ! s/he was pedaling the short bike in the back of the pack and couldn't keep up -- sorry mushpants, you have been philiminated

Here's another gem from my collection of little-known geographic facts:

If teams go east on the main road from Koupela in Kourtenga province to Fada N'Gourma in Gourma province, they will be crossing the Prime Meridian(the one that runs through the Greenwich Observatory in London). Ouagadougou is 2 degrees west and Niamey is 2 degrees east.